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Thayer Lodging Group Inc. (referred to herein as TLG, we or our), which owns
and operates www.ThayerLodging.com (Site), is committed to respecting and protecting
the privacy of our users. To demonstrate our firm commitment to safeguarding
your privacy, we have created this privacy statement (Privacy Policy), which
explains how we collect information from you and how we use such information. In
order to fully understand our privacy practices, we encourage you to read this
Privacy Policy. We may have a separate privacy policy if we receive information
from you through means other than the Site. The Site is directed to adults and
is not directed to children under the age of 21.
INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
We provide the Site for informational purposes regarding our properties and TLG. The
Site does not make guarantees of any kind regarding the properties or TLG. You may
request information regarding TLG or any of our properties by submitting your
contact information, but you may not purchase, or offer to purchase, any property
or service directly through the Site.
OUR PERSONAL INFORMATION PRACTICES
We collect, use and disclose the following categories of information in the following
ways, subject to the Exceptions section, which follows below:
CONTACT INFORMATION
We collect personally identifiable information from you in the
following circumstances:
- when you contact us,
- when you elect to receive information from us via a specified communication channel (i.e. email, direct mail, or telephone),
- as described in the section below titled Password/Extranet.
If you want to receive more information regarding TLG or our properties, you
may at your option provide us with online and offline contact information,
such as, but not limited to, your name, email address, physical address,
and telephone number. We use your contact information for the general
purposes of maintaining and administering our Site, for record keeping
and for marketing efforts.
We will use your contact information to contact you in the following circumstances:
- when necessary, such as, but not limited to, providing you with Site support,
- if you place an inquiry with us,
- if you elect to receive information via a specific communication channel,
- for marketing purposes,
- to explain new features of our Site as it develops and grows,
- to welcome you to our Site and any services, and
- as described in the section below titled Password/Extranet, if applicable.
From time to time, we may disclose your information to third parties on an Aggregate
Basis. Aggregate Basis means that we combine anonymous parts of your information
with anonymous parts of the information from our other users without including any
of your personally identifiable information, such as, but not limited to, your name
and email address, in the combination.
IP ADDRESS
When you visit our Site, we gather your IP address. We use IP addresses for diagnostic
and statistical purposes and to administer our Site.
REFERENCING WEB SITE
We collect the name and URL of the web site that you visited immediately preceding your
visit to our Site. We use this information on an Aggregate Basis to better understand
our customers and may disclose this information on an Aggregate Basis.
COOKIES
Cookies are small files created by web sites, including our Site, that reside on your
computers hard drive and that store information about your use of the web site. We use
cookies when you view different pages in our Site to maintain continuity between the
pages. We also may use cookies for marketing purposes to ensure that you do not view
the same banner advertisement repeatedly. If you choose to, you can set your web
browser to reject cookies from our Site. Rejecting cookies from our Site may limit
the ways in which you may use our Site. Please note that we may allow other companies
presenting advertisements on some of the pages of our Site to set and access their
cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own
privacy policies, not our Privacy Policy.
EXCEPTIONS
Except as described above, as described in the Change in Control section below and as
described in the Securing Your Information section below, we will not otherwise use
or disclose any of your personal information, except to the extent reasonably
necessary: (i) to correct technical problems and malfunctions in how we provide our
Site to you and to technically process your information; (ii) to protect the security
and integrity of the Site and our services, including without limitation to enforce
our Terms and Conditions with you; (iii) to protect our rights and property and the
rights and property of others; (iv) to take precautions against potential liability;
(v) to respond to claims that your information violates the rights or interests of
third parties; (vi) to the extent required by law or to respond to judicial process;
and (vii) to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information
to law enforcement agencies and for an investigation on a matter related to public
safety, as applicable.
You understand and agree that technical processing of your information is and may be
required (a) to send and receive messages regarding your use of the Site; (b) to conform
to the technical requirements of connecting networks; (c) to conform to the limitations
of our Site and our services; or (d) to conform to other, similar technical requirements.
STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We store your information indefinitely.
SECURING YOUR INFORMATION
We will use reasonable precautions to protect the data and information under our control
from misuse, loss or alteration, and will disclose such information pursuant to this
Privacy Policy. However, no system can ensure complete security, and we are not
responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties we
believe to be responsible. Access to your information will be limited to appropriate
personnel and contractors needing such information in the performance of their job
functions. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name
and address with a shipping company.
GENERAL INFORMATION
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
This Site may contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of other web sites. We encourage you to review the posted
privacy practices or policies of any web sites that you choose to view.
OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES
This Privacy Policy governs how we collect information from you through our Site
and how we use such information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to our data
and information collection and use practices outside of the Site.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Sites home
page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, use and disclose. If
at any point we decide to use or disclose a users personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify
users by way of an email. Users may choose whether or not we can use their information
in such a different manner. We will otherwise use and disclose a users personally
identifiable information in accordance with the Privacy Policy that was in effect
when such information was collected.
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